The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Months, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac ... with Four Hundred and Thirty-six Engravings, Volume 3Thomas Tegg, 1830 - Anecdotes |
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Page 15
... called black Jacks , and to him he gave the order for the twenty gross of black Jacks . The maker , surprised , said , he had not so many ready , but would endeavour to complete the order ; this was done , and the articles were shipped ...
... called black Jacks , and to him he gave the order for the twenty gross of black Jacks . The maker , surprised , said , he had not so many ready , but would endeavour to complete the order ; this was done , and the articles were shipped ...
Page 35
... called " The King's Chase , " in the lapse of ages came into possession of an earl of Salisbury . It is certain that after one of its eight distinct walks , called Fernditch Walk , was sold to the earl of Pembroke , the entire remainder ...
... called " The King's Chase , " in the lapse of ages came into possession of an earl of Salisbury . It is certain that after one of its eight distinct walks , called Fernditch Walk , was sold to the earl of Pembroke , the entire remainder ...
Page 37
... called " Alarm Gate , " was the place pro- bably where the horn was blown to call the keepers to their duty in attending their lord in his sports . There is also a venera- ble old wych - elm tree , on the Chase side of the " Alarm Gate ...
... called " Alarm Gate , " was the place pro- bably where the horn was blown to call the keepers to their duty in attending their lord in his sports . There is also a venera- ble old wych - elm tree , on the Chase side of the " Alarm Gate ...
Page 39
... called hell . It was the object of the couple condemned to this division to catch the others , who advanced from the two ex- tremities ; in which case a change of situa- tion took place , and hell was filled by the couple who were ...
... called hell . It was the object of the couple condemned to this division to catch the others , who advanced from the two ex- tremities ; in which case a change of situa- tion took place , and hell was filled by the couple who were ...
Page 49
... called Parismus and Parismenus , and a few loose magazines which my mother had brought from South Molton . With the Bible , indeed , I was well acquainted ; it was the favourite study of my grandmother , and reading it frequently with ...
... called Parismus and Parismenus , and a few loose magazines which my mother had brought from South Molton . With the Bible , indeed , I was well acquainted ; it was the favourite study of my grandmother , and reading it frequently with ...
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